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                                             June 21, 2021

                                                    <A HREF="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/author/valerie-landau/">[link]</A>

Valerie Landau, "How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future" (2018)
_Smithsonian Magazine_

   "Ironically, the mouse was the one invention that
   earned Engelbart widespread recognition, though it
   never earned him more than an initial lump sum of
   $10,000 from the Stanford Research Institute. He was
   bewildered that the simplest artifact from his grand
   vision had been the most widely embraced. After all,
   he'd foreshadowed just about everything Apple and
   Microsoft went on to create-- at a time when Jobs and
   Bill Gates were just 13 years old. Alan Kay himself
   once remarked, 'I don’t know what Silicon Valley will
   do when it runs out of Doug’s ideas.'"

   "Engelbart's refusal to compromise was one of the main
   reasons he had a hard time gathering momentum. He often
   ended discussions by declaring, 'You just don't get it.'
   That catchphrase cost Engelbart dearly. His detractors
   snidely remarked that the great proponent of
   collaboration was, ironically, unable to collaborate."


 And that sounds suspiciously
 like something a member of           EST
 the EST cult would've said.

 They liked to talk about
 being someone who *gets it*,
 meaning, I gather, someone
 who's done EST.


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